{
  "id": 14851231,
  "title": "AVALON: Zero-Shot Indoor Navigation with Human-Seeded Topological Memory",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/avalon-zero-shot-indoor-navigation-with-human-seeded-topological",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-15T09:33:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21586v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Indoor service robots often enter unmapped buildings whose layouts and task constraints are already familiar to users. We address this human-familiar, robot-unseen setting with AVALON, a topological navigation framework organized around human-seeded layered spatial memory, node-verified topological execution, and task-triggered, evidence-gated human--robot memory co-updating. The robot has no…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}